Legal Opinion
Bailey v. Algonquin Gas Transmission Co.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided January 30, 2002No. 2000-315-AppealPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
This is another inglorious chapter in a long-running series of civil cases in which, regrettably, the sins of the lawyer as agent are visited upon the client as principal.
The defendant-client, Maguire Group, Architects, Engineers, Planners, Ltd. (Ma-guire), appeals from a Superior Court order denying its motion to vacate a default judgment that entered against it on August 6, 1999, in the amount of $458,533.69, including interest and costs. The court entered the default judgment because Ma-guire’s lawyer, John Coffey, Jr. (Coffey), inexcusably had failed to respond to…
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